Prime Minister Narendra Modi on made an unprecedented move by announcing that the currencies in the denominations of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 will be invalid when the clock strikes 12 midnight of 8 November. The announcement was televised across all news channels at 8pm today. The highlightsFive hundred rupee and thousand rupee currency notes presently in use will no longer be legal tender from midnigh....

The Confederation has written to the affiliated members for campaign and mobilisation to make the 15th December 2016 Parliament March a resounding success. It is expected that at least 20000 Central Govt. Employees can be mobilised for the Parliament March. The campaign schedule is published on the Confederation blog (http://confederationhq.blogspot.in/2016/11/circular-dated-2-11-2016-to-1.html)Ce....

A former serviceman on Wednesday committed suicide at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi over the One Rank One Pension (OROP) issue.Ram Kishan Grewal, the former jawan from Bhiwani district in Haryana who committed suicide, left a note which stated that he was taking this extreme step for the Indian soldiers."He called us and informed that he is committing suicide as the government has failed to fulfill t....

Coming down heavily on the Centre for hurting the sentiments of India’s Armed Forces, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to implement the One Rank One Pension (OROP) in a meaningful way, as soldiers should not struggle to claim what is due to them.In a letter addressed to the Prime Minister, Rahul asserted that decisions taken over the last few ....

The government is gearing up to notify the fatter allowances shortly for implementation under 7th pay commission recommendations, after it’s got cabinet nod.The government has to notify higher allowances for central government employees shortly and allowances will get increased from next month, the finance ministry officials informedThe central government employees and pensioners got theirs arrear....

Cabinet has approved a 2 percent Dearness Allowance (DA) hike for the Central government employees. Ahead of Diwali, this move is likely to bring some cheers to around 50 lakh employees working with the central government as well as 58 lakh more pensioners. The provision of 2 percent dearness allowance was on the agenda of the Union Cabinet today on October 27, reports suggested earlier. Prov....

The one-man judicial committee on One Rank One Pension (OROP) set up by the government on Wednesday submitted its report to Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar.The Centre had appointed the committee under the Chairmanship of retired Chief Justice of Patna High Court L Narasimha Reddy to look into the anomalies, if any, arising out of implementation of OROP.The judicial committee had held hearings at....

The government is likely to announce the much awaited Dearness Allowance for government employees just before Diwali.The announcement of DA, which comes into effect from July, is already late by around a month. Usually, central government approves the allowance in the first week of September, and the order is released in the third or fourth week of September.The Secretary​ of the JCM Staff side wr....